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THE WEATHER ■rs tonight or tomorrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 74 degrees; 10 a. m., 79 degrees: 12 noon, 81 de grees: 2 p. m., 83 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 272. IEWKE THREATENS m tin PIHI Successful Bidders for $376,- 000 Job Will Ask for Addi tional Delay. UNABLE TO REALIZE ON “MORAL” OBLIGATION City Charter Provision Held to Prevent Council Making Binding Contract. A bad legal tangle today threatened to hold up indefinitely the building of a garbage disposal plant for which At lanta has been clamoring for years. The Destructor Company of New York, which secured the contract on a bid of $378,000, agreed to take the council's moral obligation for all but $50,000 of the amount, already appro priated. The company has not yet been able to negotiate through banks this obligation. The time limit to be gin work is up tomorrow. At a special meeting of council this afternoon an additional ten days’ time will be re quested. Tt was declared today that council has evaded the charter provision which specifically states that the council of one rear can not bind the council of another year for debt by pledging Itself in a moral contract. The Destructor Compa’ of New York wants to dis i o'int ’he city’s moral notes through a bank The banks demand that the pa per* be legal and the dty charter pro vides that it would be illegal to make them legal. Officials Hunt Solution in Vain. Whatever the success of the De structor Company is, however. In dis counting the city’s moral notes, the city holds a $35,000 certified check guaran teeing that the contract will be carried out Robert F. Maddox bought the new city hall and took the city's moral obli gation for sst\ooo. Hugh T. Inman purchased a $150,000 pump for Atlanta when he only had a moral pledge that he would be repaid. Council made both of the payments without question The building of the garbage disposal plant, however, is on a cold business basis and city officials were at. a. loss today for a solution of the problem that has apparently been ignored thus far. According to the contract the city is to pay $50,000 cash and $75,000 each year until the amount is paid The deferred payments are to bear interest of not more than six per cent For any reason it thought a succeeding council could legally refuse to make the prom ised payment. Gilbert Confident It Will Be Underwritten. There is opposition among a few members of officials to the purchase of this plant and its erection on the site of the present crematory. There is doubt of the outcome if these oppo nents resort to the courts. Dr. W. L. Gilbert, president of the board of health, said today that while the matter of financing the deal had not yet been settled, he had no doubt that a satisfactory agreement would be reached. He insisted that the building of the plant would be underwritten. The plant not only provides for a garbage disposal plant, but a 1,500- kilowatt capacity electric power plant. WHAT ARE YOU IN SEARCH OF TODAY? No matter if if is a position, help, real es tate, farms. rooms, houses, apartments, of fices, garages, boarding places. lost articles, poultry of all kinds, business opportunities, o’- any other conceiva ble thing, a Georgian Want Ad will go get it for yon. Georgian Want Ads cost little, ami accom plish much. Read them, answer them, and use them. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results [ NERVIEST OF MEN,” SAYS DOCTOR OF GOUGE His Stoicism as Operation Neared Astounds Operating Physicians. DECLARE HE HAS FINE CHANCE TO RECOVER Accused Wife Glad Eugene I Stood Operation Successfully. Hopes He’ll Get Well. Eugene Grace, shot March 5 In At lanta and pronounced incurably par alyzed by -prominent surgeons of At lanta, has a chance for complete re covery. After operating upon the wounded man yesterday afternoon at his home in Newnan, Ga.. Dr. W. M. Turner stated that there was a chance of a complete return of sensation in the lower limbs, which were cut from the nerve centers by the bullet. His spinal cord is not severed. In this statement he is backed up by Dr. T. S. Bailey, who has attended Grace ever since he was carried from Atlanta to Newnan, and Dr. John S. Derr, of Atlanta. Nerviest, Man, I I Says Physician. Dr. Derr declared Grace was the nerviest man he has seen In all his experience. Said Dr. Turner: "The patient is doing well. He has not yet reached the stage where accu rate predictions can be made, but I am oonvinced that he has a chance to re cover his health and not be crippled in . any way." For several days the operation had been contemplated. The doctors kept constant watch over their patient’s physical condition and determined, aft i er noticing evidence of a returning sen- I ration near the knee, that the probe j would be made. Grace himself was I eager for it. i Grace Urged i Doctors to Act. For more than three months he had lain upon his back unable to do more than lift a glass of water to his mouth. Often he had cried out against it and urged his physician to do something. When told that the operation would be performed he seemed very glad. At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon he was put under the anesthetic. An entrance was made at the ninth dorsal vertebra. In tlie course of the operation it was discovered that the spinal cord was not severed, hut that the paralysis had resulted from an extreme pressure. The bullet was also located, but owing to its inaccessibility it was not removed. The pressure was relieved considerably, however. The first thing Grace asked after re turning to consciousness was: "Is it coming out all right, doc?" He re ceived very encouraging assurance. Before and after the operation he was calm and collected, despite the fact that but a small margin stood between him and death. "I never saw as cool a man." said Dr. Derr this morning. “He never once lost his nerve. He never once looked as if he was in the least frightened. In all my medical experience I have never seen a man go under the knife with such splendid control over him self and such absolute fearlessness.” This morning Grace was resting easy and was unusually cheerful. To his stepfather, S. 1,. Hill, be confided the belief that he would be riding about In a buggy very soon. Mrs. Grace Glad Operation Was Success. "I’m so glad Gene stood the operation so well. I always said the doctors should operate," said Mrs. Daisy Grace today when told how her husband had I come successfully from the anesthetic. 1 "I'm .'•ure Gene will get well now. I You remember, I said it would not sur prise me if he walked into the court room at my trial. Perhaps if they had I operated a long time ago he would be i well ami walking about now." Mrs. Grace was at the home of Mrs. Louise Wilson in West End. where she has remained quietly since her release from the Tower on bond several weeks ago. She spends most of her time in the home of Mis. Wilson, rarely leav- I ing the house or the yard, but she has 1 made several visits to the offices of Moore & Branch, her attorneys, and |My« she has apparently not been r< • ■ i ogmzed b> anybody on th- street. Her old dread of facing curious people is ; rapidly pasting. ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 1912. Death Hovers Over Wreck Victims' Home GEORGIA_ TOWNS_ IN GRIEF f ' h /Z «« .... - * ' f >W* ft •*». ♦ * f". 7?' ~.. M ■ ~~ This shows one of the overturned cars and other wreckage of the Calhoun excursion train disaster, which cost three lives near Dalton yesterday. Only one of the six cars of the train re mained on the track, the other five going over the embankment with the engine. Four of the ears were turned completely over at the foot of the bank. Aft.SPENDS 551D.M Permission of Court Asked to I Issue Receiver’s Certificates for Improvements. The Atianta. Birmingham and Atlan tic Railroad Company asked permission of th® United States district court to day to issue $5,000,000 worth of re ceiver’s certificates to raise money on which to carry out extensive improve ments planned. Included in the appli cation was the Georgia Terminal Com pany and the Alabama Terminal Com pany, branches of the railroad. Judge Pardee set the hearing of the petition for Saturday morning. The company's receive?*, who have been in charge for four years, already have issued $3,250,000 worth of notes, authority for which was granted in June, 1909. If the court agrees, the notes will be given at five per cent interest, and ex tensive improvements will be begun in the Atlanta section as soon hs they can be disposed of. It is said a large New York firm has contracted for the entire amount. ATHEIST’SLEGACY GOES TO GOSHEN’S WOMAN OF MERIT ROME. GA. June 13 —ln accordance with » provision of a will died in 1863 by John Bale, grandfather of John W. Bate, solicitor general of the Rome judicial dis trict, the contents of which documents have not hitherto been published, the most meritorious woman in Goshen dis trict. Alabama, has been receiving the dividends from seven shares of Georgia railroad stock. John Bale was an atheist. He was pos sessed of a brilliant education and was a man considerable influence His will Is a remarkable document. A striking feat ure of it is the provision setting aside the dividends of seven shares of Georgia rail road stock for the most meritorious w’o man In Goshen district. Alabama. One of t he requirements he makes is that the woman with the most merit must not use snuff She must possess a sweet dlsposi | lion and economical. Two magistrates of the Goshen dis ; trict and a prominent citizen decide the | winner and award the prize Christmas of I each year. I VEN USES IN BATH ING SUITS NOT WANTED ■ AT CHICAGO BEACHES i „. ■■ t'HIt'AGO. June 13.—N0 "Venus and Adonis, or Psyche and Apollo in bath ing suits for Chicago" Is the edict, of Police Chief McWeeney, In making as signments to his men who are to see the laws enforced at the bathing beaches along bake Michigan. Chief McWeeney has issued an order in which be declarts that “princess" bath ing suits may he permitted when they are not "too clinging." but he does not define just how < linging they may be. In general the'order bars the fash j lonable bathing suits now in vogue at th, famous bathing resorts of Europe, I also flesh-colored apparel. ARREST FOLLOWS KILLING. GADSDEN. ADA., June 13. Wiley Harding, one of the white men who was I wounded in a fight with negroes at a I camp meeting near Guntersville, Mar shall county, is under arrest and‘ln jail lat Gunte> sville. Harding was bad!) I wounded. I* is charged that he killed ' a negro w oman and he was arrested | for that List of Injured Mounts, and Several Are in Danger—Res idences Are Hospitals. CALHOUN, GA., June 18. With half a hundred residences in Calhoun con verted into temporary hospitals, where the injured are being given medical at tention, this city today has had brought home to It a more vivid realization of the seriousness of the wreck of the Calhoun exrGrxton train near Dalton oh yesterday. The injured, who were brought here on special trains late yes terday afternt'on, are being cered for by physiclane and r la fives in their homes here, there being no hospital to which they could be ’.aken. Mrs. John Rf,y, the most t*>r|«jsly injured, has but a Might chance to re cover. Her back was broken. Dr. Mc- Afee, the railroad surgeon, has set the spine and hopes that she may recover. He doe® not believe the spinal cord was injured. She was brought here on one of the hospital trains. Prominent Men Hurt. Fonr of the seriously injured were too badly hml to be brought home, and they are being cared for in Dalton. They include two of the most promi nent men of this elt.y—H. F. Ross, clerk of the superior court, and G. A. Anderson, representative in the legis lature from Gordon county. Mrs. John Neal and Mrs. Kate Littlefield are the other two left m Dalton. These four are internally injured and badly bruised about the bodies. It is not thought Representative Anderson can recover Others now here who are regarded as being in serious condition include Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Gardner. Miss Blanche Gardner, Mr. anad Mrs. L. Moss and Miss Jeannette Reeves. List of Injured Reaches Seventy Five DALTON. GA., June 13.—Cots scat tered throughout several parks, con taining those who were seriously in jured in the wreck of the Knights of Pythias special from Calhoun to Chat tanooga yesterday, was the unique sight here throughout the afternoon. The wreck resulted In three being killed and 75 injured, eight seriously. The injured were placed beneath the trees in the open air. as the day was excessively hot, and there the physi cians went among them, ministering to them and alleviating the suffering. List of Injured. A complete list of the injured fol lows: Coley Cay, Annie Champion. Allie Rankin. Mrs. Fred McDaniel, Mary Norton. George Ray, Will Littlefield Vernon Ray, C. C. West, T. 11. House, S. A. Borders, Mrs. S. A. Borders, Miss Annie Lou Borders, Beulah Owens, H. P. Owens, Siddie Butler, Willie B. Ovens. Addie Belle Stewart, Minnie Kay, S. G. King. E E. Noland, S. Z. Moore. J. M. Ballew. Miss Blanche Gardner, H. B. Legg, Lillian Thompson, .Mis. J. T. Thompson. Captain A. H. Is. bill, Mrs. Will Smith, Loucile Gaines, Mrs. John Ray, Dr. V. Langford, W. H. Smith. H. G. Smith, J V. MeEntyre. Fate MeEntyre, G. L. Carpenter, .1. W. Tate, H. W. Tate, J. F. Allison, B F. Silks, T. c. Jolly, Mrs B. C. Young. H. C. Hall, Cobb MeEntyre. Willie Smith, c. Everett, S. H. Chitwood, M E. Ellis. Mrs. Boaz I.egg. E. O. Shellhouse. T. .1. Champion, William Curtis. Mrs. T. .1. Champion. Marvin Moore. Dwight MeEntyre, Miss Maude Byrum, .1. B Watts, Mrs. .1. B. Watts, R. K. Haney, Di G. A. Anderson, Mrs. Maude Neal. Miss Jeanette Reeves. Will Richards. John Shuman. Mrs. Kate Lit tlefield. Henry Ross. Miss Ethel Tliomp on. B. G Legg. Mr. and Mrs. L. Moss. Jaek Frix,. Willis Wylie and Charley Butler, the last three being negroes. HR FELDER TO ‘TELLDN’BLEASE South Carolina Committee to Summon Atlanta Attorney in Alleged Graft Prohe, CObUMBIA, S. C. June 13.—Thomta B Felder, of Atlanta, will be sum moned by the state senate committee, Investigating the late state dispensary system, to tell wliat he knows of the acts of Governor Cole L. Blease and others In connection with dispensary matters. Mr. Felder is quoted as hav ing expressed a willingness to pome here, and thee ommlttee will summon him at an early date Governor Blease is seeking the arrest of Mr. Felder on warrants sworn out, charging him with offering bribes while employed as attorney in connection with dispensary litigation. The senate committee will give the Atlanta lawyer an opportunity to tell anything he may know concerning any misconduct on the part of the governor, and he is quoted herea s saying he does know of such misconduct. Senator H. B. Carlisle, chairman of the senate committee, has stated that the committee will meet again next Tuesday and at some future session will summon Mayor John P. Grace, of Charleston, to tell what he knows of charges that the governor has received graft from blind tigers in Charleston. Grace, through his Charleston paper, recently made the assertion that graft had been received in the Capitol, and that some of it had reached Governor Blease. DESPONDENCY OVER HARD LOT OF POOR LEADS TO SUICIDE BROOKSVILI-E. GA.. June 13. "Poor men have a hard time," remark ed Richard Wilson to his brother-in law here, just before he committed sui cide. Wilson had Just returned to the home of his brother-in-law from a | plantation commissary nearby. As he passed through the house to a back room he made his comment on the hard lot of the poor man. A few minutes later pistol shots were heard. When relatives reached him Wilson was dead. Despondency over money matters l« supposed to have been the cause, BABY DIES IN LESS THAN MONTH AFTER MOTHER Little Elizabeth Dallas, daughter of Park A Dallas, left motherless less than a month ago. died at the family resi dence. 52 East Caln street, late today. Mrs. Dallas died several weeks ago. and since her death the baby, barely a month old. has never been well. The remains will be taken to McDonough. Ga.. this afternoon at 5 o'clock, and buried beside the mother tomorrow. POSTOFFICE RECEIPTS IN ATLANTA SHOW BIG GAIN The close of the fiscal year in govern- I ment offices throughout the country is I June 30 Officials of the Federal depart ments in Atlanta are preparing their an nual reports. Though official figures have not been given out, it was announced to day the receipts of the postoffice depart ment will exceed the amount taken in last year by a large margin, other offices allow a similar increase. T. R. WIIS FIRST REAL vicioms hissouri OELEGATIDN IS SEATED I aft Steam Roller, However, Earlier in Day Invades Mississippi and Adds 12 Contested Delegates to President’s Support—Penrose Moves to Seat the Roosevelt Men—Heney Scores Again. • HK’AGO. .lune 13.- the Roosevelt delegates at large from Missouri were seated by the national Republican committee to day. The eiirht men named as delegates at large were seated. Four will bo delegates and four alternates. The alternates elected wore not seated. This victory for Roosevelt, the second since the committee sessions started, gives the colonel a total of five seated by the committee. The Roosevelt men were given their seats on motion of Senator Boise Pen rose. of Pennsylvania, nations! commit teeman. and head of the Taft steam roller crew. His motion provided that four of the men be seated as delegates, and the other four as alternates. The victory came after Governor Herbert S. Hadley appeared before the committee to argue the cases of the Roosevelt men and showed conclusively that the convention held in St. Louis had been "regular." Charges that the Roosevelt men had agreed to split the delegation at large to the Chicago con vention, giving Taft and Roosevelt men equal representation without instruc tion. was the basis of the contest filed by the Taft men. Hadley asserted that no such agreement ha 1 b»en made Taft’s Victories Tol . 153. The Taft steam roller crushed on ward today and seated twelve more del egates from Mississippi, giving the president a total of 153 victories. The only time the engineers of the roller hesitated was when a sensational at tempt was made to unseat Francis J. Heney, the fiery Roosevelt leader. The motion was tabled, and Heney was al lowed to continue his opposition to the Taft operations. Then the factional fight In the com mittee was brought to a crisis. The Missouri cases, involving four dele gates-at-large and ten district dele gates, and regarded as the pivotal con test of the Roosevelt and Taft men. wereb rought up. There were rumors that only enough of the Taft would br seated to give the president a majority of the state's 36 delegates. Effort Made to Revoke Heney’s Proxy. The committee met at 9 10 o’clock and began hearing arguments on the contests from the Second. Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Mississippi districts, which were consolidated, the evidence being heard in all eases at the same time. This left the Fifth and Eighth districts to be heard separately. While debate over the Mississippi del egates was proceeding, National t’om miteeman W. S. Sturgis moved that the proxy of Francis J. Heney, <ff San Francisco, be revoked Heney has been sitting in the committee sessions, hold ing the proxy of Sidney Bieber, of the District of Columbia. His charges of fraud against the committee have stir red angry protests since he has taken his place In these sessions. The motion was laid on the table. Heney Fights His Own Battle. The move to unseat Heney was made on the ground that he had been a can didate for prosecutor on the Demo cratic ticket, and therefore was not a Republican. Heney fought back, and tlie motion was temporarily disposed of. The attack on Heney was a sensation sprung on the committee by Sturgess, who Is committeeman from Arizona. "Is this the Republican national com. mittee?” he asked. There was an audible silence for fully a minute. "If it is." he finally went on. “1 move that the proxy held by F .1 He ney, a Democrat, of California, be not accepted by this committee, because he was a candidate for district attorney on the Democpatic ticket." Senator Weber arose and protested when a second to the motion wa;- heard. "Mi Heney Is here on a proxy ” he said. At this point Heney was on his feet. “Guess They's Afraid," Said Victorious Heney "inasmuch as I am in here." he said. "I presume I have a right to make a statement. I refused to accept the Democratic nomination for district at torney. But my name was written in on the ticket and I was put in nomina tion, "And by the way. 5.000 Republicans w rote my name on the Republican tick et. 1 was defeated, if you please, by [HOHL EDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE a o y re ° means of the corrupt money of Pat Cal houn.” "I would suggest." said Committee man H. S. Chubb, of Florida, "that he be permitted to stay and continue to enlighten the country on this matter of Abe Rues. t Thomas H. Devine, on a proxy from Charles Cavender, of Colorado, then moved to lay the Sturgis motion on the table, and this was carried. Heney re sumed his seat smiling. Heney Back at ‘ ‘ Bulldoze ’ ’ Sbouter. Senator Borah moved to seat both the Taft and Roosevelt delegates in the Fifth Missisfppl district, giving each half a vote. ''ommltteeman Chubb, of Florida, moved to seat the Taft dele gates. Boran asked a roll ckli. but It whs not ordered. Borah’s motion voted down, and Chubb's carried When the Fifth Mississippi district contest came up. Arthur D. Hill pre sented the Roosevelt side. A negro was being questioned by He ney when a new row broke out. "You don't know, of your own knowl edge," said Heney. "whether an officer stopped the Roosevelt man?” "I know of my own knowledge that I did not -ee It." was the answer. "That’s right.” shouted Chubb, of Florida; "you can't bulldoze him” "Bulldoze!” shouted Heney. in dis gust. "I would like to get you on the stand just a moment.” The delegates from the Eighth dls trict were also awarded to Taft, giving him twelve for the day. The entire delegation from Mississippi, or a total and fourteen district delegates, of four delegates at large and fourteen district delegates, have been added to the temporary roll call. Missouri Contest Tough Political Problem. After the Mississippi contests had been disposed of. the committee took up the Missouri cases, involving four delegates-at-large and ten district del egates. The cases, particularly the contest over the delegates-at-large. presented one of the t.Apghest problems, from a purely political point of view, that the committee had been called op to handie The Roosevelt supporters In the state arc headed by Governor Her bert S. Hadley President Taft carried Missouri four years ago by a plurality of 700 over Bryan. Governor Hadley, an eneregtic, progressive politician has managed to hold It in line. With the elections coming on and with a strong chance that the Democratic presidential nominee may come from Missouri, the national committeemen were anxious to handle the situation in such away that chances of keeping Missouri in the Republican column would not be endangered Governor Hadley is a Roosevelt delegate-at-large, and war the principal figure in the convention at St. I amis. The delegation he headed was contested by Taft men, who held a convention in a bed room of the Plant ers hotel and named their delegation to Chicago. Among other things. Thomas K. NietJ rlngliaus, a Roosevelt man. was elected national committeeman by the state convention, f'harles Nagel, secretary of commerce and labor, and a staunch supporter of Taft is the present com mitteeman. Ry upholding the Roose velt faction, the committee would be forced to decide against Nagel, Nagel, who was In Chicago yesterday, left for St. Louis last night, and Otto F. Stelfel, head of the bolting Taftitea, held his proxy. Taft Men Charged Violation of Pledge. The Roosevelt delegates-at-large from Missouri, each with half a vote, wete Governor Herbert S. Hadley, Jesse A Tolerton, Walter 8. Dickey. John D McNeely, Hugh Mdndoe, Frederick Essen. A. A. Speer John W. Tippin. The four Taft contestants were Jo seph E. Black, John A Duncan, John J. Lahlv, Harry D Train. The contest as presented by the Had ley faction showed that the MUiour. state convention was held on April 21,